My Ántonia by Willa Cather
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Just beautiful.
This novel is like one of those amazing ten foot long landscape paintings full of shades of light and shadow you can just stare at for an hour.
They show up in the vast American plains with some land and some seeds; maybe an iron cookstove and some furniture if if they saved some money up in the old country. It’s all about the land. It’s got to be ploughed, it’s got to be planted, the rain has to be right, it has to be weeded and watched and harvested. Some people can’t do it and they might not live. Everything that’s good is pulled with great labor from rock-hard reality itself.
I loved it when he killed that great big snake, and I loved it at the end when all Antonia’s children have different personalities and Antonia’s husband is really kind of just along for the ride.
Anyway, great book, you should read it.
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